I am sure the answers are out there, but alas there are too many answers (here and elsewhere) to other questions stopping me from finding them. I just encountered something substantially similar to ...

This might be a very naive question, but I wanted to know how I could give multiple users access to a single computer without making them root users. How would I give them limitted sudo access such ...

I am new to Ubuntu and is trying to configure my environment so i can launch Sublime Text 2 directly from the terminal. I followed the solution on this post but no luck so far.
These are steps I did ...

I have access to a box over ssh
and there are some files i'd like to transfer to another machine, but those are only accessible under another account
so if i ssh with 1, then sudo 2 i can browse them
...

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server, with the default security model (root locked, using sudo to elevate privileges). I occasionally enjoy using sudo -i when I'll need to run a series of commands with ...

I am using Ubuntu 11.04. I want to run a script which checks for a running process and shuts down the system when that process ends. To do this, the user requires shutdown access so that the script ...

I have one admin account and recently I have accidentally added myself to a single group (usermod -G without -a).
So, I am not in the sudoers file any more. However, it is not possible to log in to ...

Where are unauthorized sudo attempts reported to?
When you attempt to use sudo, and are not allowed, a message says that the attempt will be reported.
Is this only reported in var/log/auth.log ? or ...

I did it... I guess everyone does it sometime, but this was my first. I executed sudo chown -R /usr/bin and before I realized my mistake, it was too late... Now I can't access sudo because I receive ...

I'm not sure what happened. A few days ago I installed some updates and now i get an error whenever I try to run sudo nautilus. If I run gksudo nautilus it hangs for a few seconds then does nothing. ...

When I load GEdit, it is different from sudo GEdit.
Normal GEdit gives me Gtk warnings in the console, and ithas a different look.
When I install plugins on either version, it doesn't reflect on the ...

I've searched for this, and the answer is probably in a million places on the 'net, but I can't find it...
How do you give your account root privileges in Linux so that you don't need to sudo every ...

Whenever I try to do anything at all that requires my password it returns this:
u7ur7l3@ubuntu:~$ sudo
sudo: /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so must be owned by uid 0
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins
...

I stopped using Ubuntu for a while (since 12.10) and recently came back to it.
From what I remember, it used to only ask for the root password once for a terminal session (for sudo commands). Now it ...

Just installed a turnkey linux ubuntu/apache/tomcat vm image. After some trouble getting the bridged network adapter installed on win7, I wanted to check network access to and from the vm. Verified ...

my system is a new 11.04 ubuntu and i recently started working with LAMP.
some how, when i tried to change permissions of the var/www/ for netbeans to work on the local server, and did something that ...

I just installed ruby using apt-get with the following command:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full
But when I try to do sudo gem install ... it says that I have not installed gems and that I shoud ...